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Domestic Operations

To address changing market needs, Kajima has established new departments specializing in building life cycle management and renovation work. These new departments are in charge of market surveys and marketing support programs to promote business that encompasses a comprehensive range of activities from construction through maintenance and refurbishment. In order to strengthen these efforts, Kajima has developed innovative technologies--including those for the improvement of harbors and other marine facilities, the evaluation of structural life spans, and the execution method of base isolation without requiring buildings to be vacated during renovation work--and it is endeavoring to ensure that such technologies contribute to its corporate performance. Many of the Company's new technologies help protect the environment, such as those for refrigeration systems without harmful CFCs as a refrigerant and those for the reuse of concrete waste generated in building demolition as an aggregate for building construction. The Company has also been proceeding with fundamental improvement of its construction cost estimate and control systems. The growing use of information technology at job sites and the promotion of standardized information systems throughout operations are effectively helping prompt and expeditious internal decision making. On the brink of the 21st century, Kajima is anticipating momentous transitions in society and, accordingly, planning bold reforms to build a corporate structure that can generate stable profits while flexibly responding to a constantly changing operating environment. To bolster competitiveness in its principal business fields, the Company is continuing to develop low-cost construction technologies. It is also placing strong emphasis on creating and using sophisticated technologies to provide high-value-added services that enable it to obtain highly challenging projects on a negotiating basis and to enhance its earnings capabilities. Recognizing the importance of the efficiency and effectiveness of its R&D activities and of its new information technologies, Kajima is making intensive efforts to build a solid operational base that dependably generates profits from diversified services. Kajima has a long tradition of success in emphasizing the development of design and construction technologies that would meet increased future demand for such challenging structures as superhigh-rise buildings, tunnels, and long-span bridges. The Company intends to tirelessly work to extend and amplify this tradition. New Civil Engineering Contract Awards: No. 10 and No. 11 Underground LNG Storage Tanks for the Futtsu Thermal Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. Two 125,000kl tanks--Walls: 1.8m thick concrete; Base: 6.0m thick concrete; Diaphragm underground wall: 1.1m thick concrete; Located in Chiba Prefecture First Construction Stage for the Takizawa Dam One of Japan's largest concrete gravity dams--Height: 140m; Length of crest: 424m; Dam volume: 1.6 million m3; Water storage volume: 63 million m3; Excavated materials: 1.53 million m3; Concrete used: 480,000m3; Located in Saitama Prefecture Omarugawa Pumped-Up Hydraulic Power Station Temporary diversion conduit--1,486m; Intake tunnels: 175m x 2; Gate shafts: 48m x 2; Asphalt wall facing: 187,000m2 x 5 layers; Asphalt floor coating: 110,100m2 x 5 layers; Concrete used: 55,000m3; Excavated materials: 4.6 million m3; Various environmental protection measures; Located in Miyazaki Prefecture Hiroshima Expressway No. 4 (Hiroshima Seifu New Expressway) Tunnel Construction of highway tunnel under park and apartment complex; Length: 1,244m toward city center, 1,256m from city center; Cross-sectional area: 68.1m2; Located in Hiroshima Prefecture Superstructure of Nihonkai Coastal Tohoku Expressway Agano River Bridge Construction of PC superstructure of 12-span bridge; Length: 951; Width: 10m x 2; Concrete required: 17,422m3; Steel reinforcement bars: 2,380t; PC steel materials; 864t; Located in Niigata Prefecture | Previous | Next |

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